Conventions are important because of the efficiency and simplicity of finding your own work where it "
belongs", and for others' to contribute and collaborate!
They are as simple and important as capitalizing the first word of every sentence or adding commas and periods as needed! Imagine what a pain it would be if books (and blog posts!) were written without common conventional grammar rules. The same goes for general programming. Here are the MVC conventions to keep in mind (usually not REQUIRED, but also usually EASIER to keep to these):
- Controllers folder should contain all of the application’s controller classes.
- Controller classes all end their names with the Controller suffix (ex: MovieController).
- Views contains the files that the user will be able to browse.
- Views can have subfolders: Shared and an optional folder with views for each Controller.
- When a Controller is specifically making data for a certain View and encapsulated in a View Model: name it ActionViewModel (change out Action for what the Action actually is!).
- "RequestModel" for in-bound data & "ResponseModel" for out-bound data.
- HTML Form fields should have the same name as Model Properties.
Additionally, Microsoft .NET recommends the following:
- UpperCamelCase ("Pascal Style") for most identifiers
- lowerCamelCase is for parameters and variables
